The retro computing group I mostly participate in (here in Spain) seems to have the war between Atari ST and Amiga settled. Everyone now enjoys both machines, and has allied to fight a common enemy: the PC :lol: I must say I recently got my hands on an Amiga 500 and I was completely surprised with w...

I am quite sure the +12 and +5 cables where switched. Silicebit's clone had he Molex connector plugged under the board to allow direct plug of a PC power source (avoiding confusions). That being said, I am almost also sure you don't need +12v with Gotex/HxC or modern FDDs (3.5). The motor of an olde...

I did not want to start a debate, really. I find them fun and an opportunity to learn a lot (and I am always curious and willing to learn from others). I understand that you want a decent C compiler so you can test things, maybe mix with asm... It is perfectly OK and I understand that. lcc65 is crap...

Oh, I see... I always thought that R/W was only set in the period Phi2 was high, while the ULA accessed the RAM when it was low (or was it the other way around?), but it seems that indeed the state of Phi2 must be taken into account too. Okay, I always loved hardware but always also sucked at it and...